Regional Gardens
From coast to coast, discover inspiring gardens from our archivesFor 30 years we’ve been featuring incredible gardens, both in print and online. Browse our collection of gardens in your region, or take a virtual tour of areas you can’t visit in person. Rich photography and behind-the-scenes information brings each garden to life.
A Pacific Northwest gardener creates a suburban sanctuary: a pollinator haven and a small vegetable garden that is both functional and beautiful.
How Ione and Emmott Chase turned a parcel of former logging land into one of western Washington's most celebrated public gardens.
These Woodinville, Washington, homeowners worked on their garden for 10 years. Now that it’s complete, people are taking notice.
An “old school” grassy front yard in Bothell, Washington, is transformed into a thriving Zen-like retreat.
Unusable rooftop space was transformed into a unique and inviting urban garden, providing much-needed gathering and entertaining space.
The owners of this Portland, Oregon, garden want to connect people with the Earth.
This Portland garden is home to birds, bees, bugs, and more. It’s also boasts plants that are beautiful and kind to the environment.
See how a Portland gardener turns her problematic sloped shade garden into a winter jewel box of hellebores and Lenten rose hybrids.
Freeland and Sabrina experiment and create an extraordinary, deeply personal garden in Napa, CA.
A tiny backyard in Piedmont, CA is transformed into a functional, family-friendly retreat.
The story and photographs of one reader's winter garden in Petaluma, California.
A party beneath olive trees at a winery in Napa is exactly as the garden's creators envisioned.
The husband and wife design team, Ryan and Kate Gross, spent a year transforming the property from a dilapidated backyard to a modern oasis.
See how a 15,000-gallon koi pond was added to this Point Loma property that was once home to scrubby bushes and a patchy lawn.
In an enclave of Los Angeles sits a down-to-earth garden that takes shade and sloping terrain in stride.
In the foothills of Los Angeles, artists Roy Dowell and Lari Pittman created a garden that's part installation piece and part intimate memoir.
Blog
A Delaware couple built their home and gardens around a natural pond that’s a haven for wildlife
See how one gardener transformed her suburban Washington D.C. yard with beautiful and functional garden rooms.
Thomas Jefferson’s legendary garden in Charlottesville, Virginia, has undergone a 35-year restoration.
This Somerset, Maryland, property the home was facing an identity crisis and needed a cohesive exterior style.
Blog
An artfully designed composition of native and non-native plantings creates a beautiful orchestration of color and texture.
A garden in Pennsylvania kicks into high gear just as the growing season winds down.
Native (and extremely local) plants create stunning wildflower fields in 30 acres in rural Pennsylvania.
A photographer moves to a new house and discovers that it is brimming with plant treasures that she has always coveted.
Blog
An Upstate New York property is transformed into an impressive contemporary cottage-style garden.
A bountiful, four-season Oehme, van Sweden garden on Long Island breathes new life into an 18th-century farmstead.
Textile designer Jack Lenor Larsen brings an eclectic sensibility to his lush public garden in the Hamptons.
A woodland garden, complete with a “forest floor” and a canopy of trees in Dix Hills, New York.
Blog
An award-winning landscape design gives equal weight to aesthetics and the environment at this Connecticut home.
Owners of Bedrock Gardens in Lee, New Hampshire, share 5 things to consider when adding art to the garden.
In Natick, Massachusetts, 17 miles west of Boston, Joyce Ahlgren Hannaford has created a garden that is a neighborhood landmark.
The landscape comes first at this summer home on Fishers Island off the Connecticut coast.
A Missouri woman rekindles her passion for gardening, making some surprising discoveries along the way.
How Heather Blackmore created a space that encourages wonder and an appreciation for nature in her own compact Chicago garden.
Lessons learned after exploring Tracy VanVolkinburg’s colorful, thriving Michigan garden.
A tiny front yard and parkway garden reflect the warmth and friendliness of the residents..
Blog
Some 3,000 species of plants grow at Peckerwood, a 40-year-old, renowned private garden near Hempstead.
A garden in Austin was transformed from a scrubby parcel into a dramatically tiered, lushly outdoor space.
A French provincial garden is created when the new owners of a 1920s Texas home undertake the restoration of their unkempt property.
Residents of Marfa, Texas, have created vibrant gardens that bring life to the desert plains.
Blog
A South Florida landscape by Sanchez & Maddux is resplendent with old-world charm.
Landscape architecture plays a starring role in creating this utopian beachside community on Florida's northwest coast.
A distinctive mid-century home is flawlessly restored and given a fresh contemporary landscape.
Colorful garden walls and sculptural plants are used against a neutral backdrop for a lush, lively take on modernism.
Blog
The owners took their interest for unique, sick, and unwanted plants, and turned 4 acres in Charlotte into a garden sanctuary.
A late-season garden in North Carolina's Appalachian Mountains has profuse plantings of dahlias, asters, salvia, & more.
In her New Orleans garden, Mary Cooper has achieved lushness and abundance on an extremely small scale.
University of Georgia's famed football coach shares his passion for gardening and his biggest challenge.
Blog
A garden in the Arizona desert designed by Christy Ten Eyck is both water-wise and chic.
Take a visual stroll through this unusual arid landscape near Joshua Tree National Park.
A garden in New Mexico honors the native landscape and makes the most of every drop of rain that falls.
A garden in Patagonia, Arizona, takes the Southwest climate in stride.
Blog
A picturesque farmhouse property in Southern Idaho is transformed into a gorgeous hydrangea-centered garden.
A home and garden on a steep hillside in the Rocky Mountains.
A Zen garden in Sun Valley, Idaho kept wise water use in mind, as well as wildlife habitat and use of local materials.
With steep slopes and barren rock, this Idaho garden took buckets of soil, innovation, blood, sweat, and tears to become a lush hillside retreat.
Canada
Lorraine and RJ Roberts of Plant Paradise Country Gardens in Caledon, Ontario planted thousands of perennials and established new beds in their garden.
The story of how Bonny McKeough of Chatham, Ontario, embarked on an ambitious mission to grow the perfect herb garden.
This once run-down property in Metchosin, British Columbia now boasts a 2.5 acre Japanese garden.
Garden writer Marjorie Harris shares her shade garden in Toronto, Canada, as well as a detailed list of plants she grows.